The US has deported five migrants to the tiny southern African nation of Eswatini as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up its aggressive deportation campaign to third countries.

The Trump administration has deported five migrants convicted of violent crimes to the African nation of Eswatini, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The United States sent five migrants it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program,